Review: The Cradle Will Rock

this is a discussion within the NOLA Community Forum; There's no telling if the prostitutes of Steeltown are getting ready to unionize, but The Cradle Will Roc k opens with Moll (Emilie Whelan) trying to work out a decent price with a prospective client and bemoaning the sorry state ...

There's no telling if the prostitutes of Steeltown are getting ready to unionize, but The Cradle Will Rock opens with Moll (Emilie Whelan) trying to work out a decent price with a prospective client and bemoaning the sorry state of wages and law enforcement as she's hassled by a policeman, who also shakes down the client. It's a funny start, with a nice ballad by Whelan, in Cripple Creek Theatre Company's free production of Marc Blitzstein's 1937 politically conscious musical.

Times are toughest for the factory workers in Steeltown, but the ensemble piece is mostly comic.?